by Max Wilbert | Sep 10, 2021 | Reflection
On Tuesday, Lithium Americas CEO Alexi Zawadzki published an opinion column in this newspaper stating that “For Lithium Americas and its subsidiary Lithium Nevada, developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine isn’t worth doing if we don’t do it right. This means...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Sep 8, 2021 | Press Releases, Resistance Updates
For Immediate Release September 8, 2021 Contacts: John Hadder, Great Basin Resource Watch Mirko Nikolić, YLNM-Lithium Group / Postdoc Linköping University Hannibal Rhoades, YLNM-Lithium Group / The Gaia Foundation Today, an international working group of individuals...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 7, 2021 | Resistance Updates
We need your help this week to put pressure on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, asking her to at the very least delay digging at Thacker Pass so consultation can be done properly. Native people of this region have been disregarded and disrespected by the Bureau of Land...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 3, 2021 | Project updates, Reflection
Earlier today, Judge Miranda Du rejected requests from the Reno-Sparks Indian Tribe, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu/People of Red Mountain to put an emergency halt on planned archeological digging for the Thacker Pass lithium mine. As I watch Lithium...
by Will Falk | Sep 2, 2021 | Reflection
Lithium Nevada and supporters of the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine project love to claim that the mine will bring jobs to the area. This may be true. But, even if it is true, the mine will also bring more air, water, and soil pollution. The mine will also lead to...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Sep 1, 2021 | Project updates
by Caelen McQuilkin Published in the Opinion section of The Mammoth Times on August 19, 2021 Drive slightly east and then five hours north out of Lee Vining, and you’ll find yourself in Thacker Pass, a wide-open landscape of sagebrush and sloping hills, achingly...
by Will Falk | Aug 29, 2021 | Reflection
As I come down from the stress and anxiety of preparing for Friday’s oral arguments in the Thacker Pass case, I’ve been thinking about what I’ve learned since Max Wilbert and I set up our little two-person tent back on January 15 to protest the...
by Max Wilbert | Aug 29, 2021 | Project updates
Live blogging notes from the preliminary injunction hearing, Friday August 27, 2021 The wind is strong from the east this morning at #ThackerPass. Coyotes howling. Hummingbirds in the air. A jackrabbit hopped through camp in the pre-dawn. The land is alive and awake....
by Protect Thacker Pass | Aug 29, 2021 | Project updates
While researching the history of Thacker Pass for legal work, Will Falk found this diary entry, titled Field Notes of the Subdivision Lines in Township 44, from Oct 18, 1868: General Description About one half only of this Township is fit for cultivation and that is...
by Max Wilbert | Aug 24, 2021 | Project updates
On Friday, August 27th at 2pm Pacific, attorneys for Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu (People of Red Mountain) will hold a virtual press conference updating supporters and media members on the lawsuits against the Bureau of Land Management and...
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